The International Athletics Federation (IAAF) will publish tomorrow the results of tests conducted by Oscar Pistorius (pictured), the disabled athlete who aspires to attend Olympics Beijing 2008. In Monaco, the directors have received a month ago the report of Professor Gert-Peter Brueggemann, a professor of biomechanics at the University of Cologne, and have already advised the representatives of South Africa.
In an interview with German newspaper Die Welt, Brueggemann had anticipated hearing to consider the Pistorius an advantage over able-bodied athletes. In South Africa, therefore, should not be given the opportunity to compete in Beijing 2008. But in case of negative opinion by the IAAF, the athlete intends to appeal.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
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Oscar Pistorius (Pretoria, South Africa, November 22, 1986) is an athlete a disabled Paralympic champion in the 200 meter dash in 2004. Nicknamed with revised sensitivity "The fastest thing on no legs" (the fastest thing without legs), Pistorius is a bilateral amputee world record holder over 100, 200 and 400 meter dash. He runs with carbon fiber prosthesis in particular. Born with a severe malformation feet (he had no heels), to 11 months underwent at the knee, the amputation of the lower limbs. In the years of high school rugby and water polo practiced, then an accident brought him to athletics, first as a rehab, then by choice. His first official engagement of importance were the 2004 Athens Paralympics. At 17 he won the 100-meter bronze and gold in the 200, beating even amputees single most popular athletes such as American Marlon Shirley and Brian Frasure. Since 2005, he expressed a desire to race with able-bodied Olympics in Beijing 2008. The IAAF has so far rejected the request, arguing that "the legs are not the traditional advantage over other athletes." A partial Pistorius, however, the success he achieved in June 2007, when he was admitted by the organizers of the Golden Gala in the 400 meter race reserved for able-bodied athletes. On July 13, 2007 Pistorius competed at the Olympic Stadium in Rome and then for the group B of the Golden Gala, and came second. Pistorius holds the world record for amputees at all three distances: 10.91 100-meter, 46.56 and 21:58 on the 200 and 400. (Ch.giord)
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